of work less than forty percent of iraqi adults have a job and a quarter of families live below the world bank's poverty line statistics that haven't improved much since the days of crushing u.n. sanctions in the one nine hundred ninety s. elections may have brought democracy to iraq but critics say the government is rife with corruption and infighting. despite the various that's occurred in the time of the former regime which is not comparable to the number of thirty is by the politicians and the current government. and more troubling perhaps are the lingering divisions of this occupation separated us from to try to place the political structure with a troubling one which aggravated the political conflict which i see no good in this kind of regime and. today iraq is facing a new political crisis there's tension on the ground between the sunni provinces and the shia led government as well as between baghdad and the kurdish north i think if these issues are not resolve it can lead to more significant problems

including conflict which can lead to i think break up but if you look and destabilization region and an upsurge in violence is sparking fears of a return to sectarian strife new figures show that death rates have actually risen since the last american soldier left iraqi soil how long will iraq remain like this every day there are explosions every day there is killing every day there is terrorism. explosion after explosion iraqis have asked themselves that same question for most of the last ten years to see counseling of r.t. iraq. president obama returns from the middle east where his new term foreign policy is put in palestine in the backseat in order to smooth things over with israel more on that when we come back stay with us. a clear image of the iraq story

a. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the roads. clear evidence from north to south. the route of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. taxi.

u.s. president barack obama chose israel as a destination of choice or his first visit abroad since as a reelection despite earlier words on bolstering u.s. arab relations he largely skirted the palestinian issue with focusing more on smoothing things over with israel's leadership or his policy or has more across this region the winds of change bring both promise and peril so i see this visit as an opportunity but an opportunity for to reaffirm the unbreakable bond between our nations to restate america's unwavering commitment to israel's security. and to speak directly to the people of israel nothing about the palestinians the stalled peace process or any pressure on tel aviv to stop

settlement expansion but four years ago the message sounded very different i've come here to cairo to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world and he not chooses to do this by giving an impassioned speech to a carefully selected israeli audience using plaintive zionist imagery and naming an israeli boy who lost a leg in a rocket attack but failing to mention the dozens of palestinian children killed in israel's bombardment of gaza last year yeah. no wonder his reception in ramallah was cold well it's not such a large crowd of anti obama protesters here in ramallah but the sentiments being expressed here already reflective of the general mood on the palestinian streets. this is just a big shame on the palestinian leadership this visit is just for supporting israel . he came to me with the zionist regime people who refused to accept obama because of the american imperialism and the american authority. if the united

states once under the united states has the will they could immediately stop israel from destroying the very last opportunity of peace based on two state solution but they're not doing that and the question is would he have visited them a lot if he was not visiting israel. and yet the main message from the bombers three day trip was not even on the decades long conflict but rather more of the usual recruit on the situation in neighboring syria the united states continues to work with allies and friends and the syrian opposition to hasten the end of assad's rule and only ran on its nuclear program more of the same warnings netanyahu seized on that are to send a message to tehran about american loyalty to israel mr president i want to thank you once again for always making clear that israel must be able to defend itself by itself against any threat it's no coincidence that obama chose israel for the first foreign visit of his second term relations between him and it on yahoo have been

strained particularly over west bank settlements and the rain in through it and although they both put on a happy face for the cameras there's no denying the mistrust lurking below the surface israel can never see the right to defend ourselves to others even to the greatest of our friends in the aftermath of the arab spring the united states needs all the friends it can get but for all the pomp and ceremony a bomb has visited cheve nothing more than reminding these radios and palestinians that they need to make peace while leaving the arab world feeling even more alienated from washington. r.t. . fierce clashes across egypt this week between opponents and supporters of the ruling muslim brotherhood outside the group's headquarters most intense fighting was in cairo where more than ninety people were injured police fired tear gas to. first rioters who encircled the brotherhood offices this latest wave of anger toward the group erupted last week when members attacked journalists and opposition activists during a peaceful protest outside the building met who are you from egypt's opposition

national salvation front says the government is a step from falling into the abyss. the midst of a brotherhood government and most the government is with standing its position of giving at death the deaf ear to any claims of reform and to any claims of opposition to the very harmful policies in egypt. the record of the voter see is a failure of managing the problems of the government of management the problems of egypt it's all to the c.e.o. of this government or to the photo of this regime and it just has been stalling they're losing control of parts of egypt a lot of cities a lot of governments in egypt are now rising up against the muslim brotherhood and against the government did not recognize the government as a lawful government that would. oversee the matter manage to day to day of government work. taking

a look at some other stories making global headlines this hour pakistan's former president pervez musharraf has landed in pakistan despite taliban threats to assassinate him on his return to the sheriffs come back to pakistan from his self-imposed exile to write in may's parliamentary election he quit as president four years ago amid a growing political backlash and calls for his impeachment but as the vote draws closer deaths and terrorist threats continue mounting seventeen soldiers killed in a suicide bomb attack near the afghan border saturday night. men have attacked a prison filling twenty five people in eastern nigeria government are said to have used bombs grenades and machine guns to free an as yet unknown number of prisoners before looting a bank and its hacking to open air taverns police won't comment on whether the nigerian islamist sect boko haram is behind the attacks the group recently attacked three schools leaving four dead. friend says his soldiers have secured the airport in the central african republic capital against rebel forces at

a fought their way into bangui it's also called for an emergency meeting of the un security council to discuss further action is the rebel forces earlier shot down a government military helicopter and i'm now heading for the presidential palace the seleka coalition began its offensive in december and it's taking control of about a dozen towns up next artie's interview with a man called europe's. most. when their own country trying to offer them a living even loving mothers sometimes have to leave their children behind. i don't

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a time perhaps for affection not just to look on what's gone past but also with the prospects of intervention in syria war with iran looming almost lessons can be learned from past decisions and we look forward to the feature to help us talk more about this i'm joined by the former deputy prime minister under taney blair prescott thank you very much for joining us we're talking about reflections ten years on from the war in iraq what do you think ten years on now did it turn out the way you think that we certainly didn't. then the important thing is what did we go into iraq war while saddam was an evil man there's no doubt about it but we're not the believer in train can't just go into another country and besides i don't like its leader tony blair a very strong view that you should not stand aside when lots of people are being killed but i was always insisted when we discussed it it did have two of the united nations endorsement and that's what tony did hope to get the master about nuclear

weapons and used to have them before sundown certainly wasn't there to be found out intelligence was wrong but what is me now when i reflect in ten years is not so much how i came to be agree with tony and then the process of change and it became regime change but when i talked about president cheney when i was sent over the top of that i mean this was a man who didn't go down what was going to happen about the way he just really wanted to go in iraq to them mine president bush the father had stopped to. kuwait had not gone in and dealt with saddam so all the about it could you say to me it's business as usual and what they meant was basically unfinished business. to that extent i was very alarmed and told that bring it forward now to the ten years the work begins to worry me all the move is it does seem and tony blair is saying that in the case of syria or indeed in iraq nothing is implications about that the

feeling is you go in then to do the same thing now that's just wrong we're not learning the lessons of iraq it doesn't bring peace shaka no mind when militarily but the weeks that followed calls them off a lot of deaths among civilians when we're talking about me now with hindsight saying that the wall in iraq was wrong at one point events that took place it will point it in saying it wasn't the right thing today well the real problem is you discussing whether you should do it i came back and told tony the americans ago in him with or without riedel make the difference they're going in. and i said to tony therefore it's almost regime change but we were already into the the difficulty with the politicians remember nearly two hundred people of our own people died quite apart from thousands and many thousands of civilians once you're in the war you get behind your troops you do not then have the arguments but now it's ten years on i'm looking at how i went through that process of change i think it's

right to say now not to clear my conscience because i must accept the responsibilities for the part i played in the decision he had he come to accept that it's not easy people have died how do you do it even if only talk about british troops which nearly two hundred of them right or indeed the many thousands of civilian who continue to die even today in what is happening in iraq so it's not easy you do the best to make the decision even quick now that you didn't speak out loud and telling people like well being hey can hang on robin cook actual out the americans to bomb from u.k. bases in iraq before and that was without the us i understand rob exact amounts but basically looking. back. i thought the decisions were right at the stage there was another important factor and bush promised to bring in a road map for palestine and just the same policy americas the only one that's likely to have any influence on the israelis right

a bush went further than twenty or even recognize a two state system and tony blair is out there still trying to achieve some of that but the americans failed in producing so each stage you look at the east so think it's worth doing who could settle palestine i do a lot of things to try and bring justice back into the for the problems that the terrible situation we got back so each stage and then the un tony thought you could carry the euro your nations a russian obviously was making clear. china as well so to the extent we didn't get the un. only made that decision. the americans make clear we could come out i was said to go in without just any way. tony blair's not that kind of guy at this point when we heard from tony blair then prime minister he said this in the house of commons that he saddam hussein has existing and active military plans for the isa chemical and biological weapons which could be activated within forty five minutes of the famous speech that we heard you at the time i sat there in the video is that

he prime minister at the time his right hand. on intelligence given to us told us about the nuclear weapons right they did after nuclear weapons when the israelis bombed the place that they were they were developing them so used to have secondly he used gas which i think is the one is that if the drama versed enough to kill thousands of kurds so he was a month for using. weapons of mass destruction he has a record of doing basically an evil man the question to me though is if the u.n. felt that he wasn't observing by the way the worst seventeen resolutions committed by the u.n. involving russia. well so to that extent there was a un mandate tony felt you could act on them but he couldn't is the agreement of the security council would have a separate motion on intervention and didn't get the un. the un failed over

a wonder it failed over said i want to talk about rwanda case he mentioned in your wife and we said maybe you feel that that was in part what happened in rwanda mates face and maybe at the back a tiny place in mind when iraq was happening when that decision was being made that he didn't want to have another situation where the world stood by to watch it's a critical fight said that the san francisco speech is actually repeated it again since i only took two days ago and i said tony what you are saying in your speech you should still be able to intervene is regime change whatever it is who decides the good to go in the body to him it's if you kill your old people you don't have a right to be oppressive with your own people where is the line drawn but then he says we won't send in troops boots on the ground because it's so popular leave out costly the same in america now they want to use these drones to bomb people out there killing more civilians in pakistan than they are the alleged terrorists so

you know it's like. so many thousands treated we have and kill our food we want to kill them i mean when obama was sitting there. and say oh it's some round in the table like a video game say kill him now she says whether we don't see he said he told to teddy bear just a few days ago about what are your conversations like now ten years old what is the discussion of the term is a generous man. you my views when we were think of a but i'm a deputy prime minister i'm not doing the storm announce and all what does he say about you a few days saying now that it was the wrong decision how does he feel about it i've said that and you know this is my view so it's no shock to. but ten years on then say to him you committed the same mistakes in a speech you just made about syria i just don't agree with you tony and he doesn't oh no let me count a problem with that but it's the same defense when he talking about serious defenses quite clear that no new leader in the world has

a right to kind of kill off its people in an oppressive way to feel tony blair because it puts coving very much feel that they were lied to the war in iraq t.v. feel that you would like to see at the time assistant to the prime minister are you saying that when you read the intelligence information says that you accepted or not how are the can you say no we know we had nuclear weapons before we know that he actually used them against people gas and weapons of mass destruction we know he had a lot of the intelligence reports said yes he still got them. and then that became the first shot where they couldn't find any of it not that he didn't use them if he has them or not even if he had them the israelis bombed he didn't have them they were not we didn't know that when you're looking at the paper you get a report in front of what are going to say that mistake cost hundreds of thousands of iraqi you know you just took the easy option you're asking me what i call again intelligence report that says he's still got what he used before so we don't use

them it's not just make it go and the intelligence report with the information given in that way says that now. even then i don't think you can unilaterally in to be without a u.n. resolution that was a strong wind always with tony always felt he could get it but it didn't get. in the den could have pulled out if you want that was a judgment for him to make but once we've gone it you do not get into a bloody war politically when your own people are out on for a very strong position as i say i'm willing to take it to zero may face at the time this happened it's one thing to think out here that that is wrong but i think the problem is just to prevent the mistakes being made again now that. e a talking about what happens behind the scenes think up and what can happen now what lessons can be learned been told and fact i've said to the people and that's why public about to say that i could easily say nothing. i'm not looking to be you

don't get logic to say that by the way or having a decision wrong you don't become popular overnight for that but i am worried what's happening about syria they're going talking about iraq it's it's almost the crusades again the western superior values now have to be planted in these countries i mean at the end of the day what are we doing now we're providing put a bullet protection for the rebels while the civilians are getting killed and being driven out the country and you cannot change iraq teaches which they would simply by getting rid of the leader doesn't bring a kind of peace and quiet no you got religions that hate each other differently does come in and that's in all these mediterranean countries when you hear william hague talking about owning rebel queens and making sure that it gets into the right hands well i think you do exactly the mistake well the certainly in in regard to syria there is u.n. resolutions to try and assist and help the revelation rather than get rid of saddam

pay a fight to police almost made the same so what you go is a kind of civil war going on between them was it's the center of what might happen in the middle east while in reality we're going to have to live and let in the people decide what they're going to do in egypt in syria in libya i mean the interesting thing is tony blair got gadhafi to drop his best men to nuclear would we invaded wouldn't nations have gone in libya lifted they got the bomb. because when they know when the lesson is learned like in iran if you want real security you have the bomb and then we say fear around us the bombs are going to syria they're going to days well i'm afraid the. western view tends to be there are goodies and baddies with the bomb nobody was supposed to have the bomb after the agreements the nonproliferation india's got it pakistan's got it. seems to be having israel we don't want to talk about but we got a bomb. and so this is the to

a certain extent almost as i said in discussions with tony on the cover. why is it then you're prepared to tolerate india pakistan have a bomb. why is everybody has to plead with china to go to north korea and ask them to drop. it you're arguing bumblings power influence the know that russia is i mean we told our affections ten years on from the war in iraq i think fifty we're told from afghanistan next year and we've got obviously the talk of going in syria on the table the thing this government is going to make the same mistake. that the previous governments mate i think there's a danger of doing that because it's motivated almost by the same things good people stick together i'm afraid when you get through the countries are not necessarily good their might well be bad be interested just to mention afghanistan that was the un agreement i saw a role the intelligence forces show whether the bombers of the terrorist were operating from and that was right. they destroyed them but that was with the u.n.

intervention but we are only better off in afghanistan i just think year after ten years in afghanistan now will it not go back to it's always it's looking like it will so they started the last of this to avoid being doing the crusades we did that one thousand years of. this crusade without boots on the ground with the public and said we don't want to then you go to technology. and that still doesn't bring you peace and political stability thank you very much kyra. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from

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